{"id":123675,"date":"2026-02-26T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123675\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:26:09","slug":"philadelphia-city-council-resolution-examines-death-by-suicide-among-first-responders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123675\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia City Council resolution examines death by suicide among first responders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Philadelphia City Council is weighing whether death by suicide among the city&#8217;s first responders should be considered a line-of-duty death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During a hearing on Wednesday, advocates spoke about the struggles families face following a death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Currently, families of first responders who die in the line of duty receive financial aid and other benefits. This support is rarely available in cases of suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Council President Kenyatta Johnson introduced a resolution that also looks into mental health resources for first responders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you are experiencing suicidal, substance use or other mental health crises please call or text the new three-digit code at 988. You will reach a trained crisis counselor for free, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can also go to <a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:988lifeline.org;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">988lifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia City Council is weighing whether death by suicide among the city&#8217;s first responders should be considered a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58088,14648,58089,69,5648,71,70],"class_list":["post-123675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-death-by-suicide","tag-kenyatta-johnson","tag-line-of-duty-death","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-city-council","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}